Teaching & Learning
- Pacific Union College does not appear to define an explicit AI-specific policy for student use of AI tools in coursework or assignments in the available source materials
- The college's academic honesty policy addresses plagiarism and academic dishonesty broadly, but no standalone AI-use rule for assignments is defined in the extracted sources
All forms of academic dishonesty are considered a serious offense and may result in suspension or dismissal from the College.
Students who violate the academic integrity policy may be given a failing grade in the course and may also be subject to additional disciplinary action.
- The provided source text does not define a policy on using AI for tutoring, study help, concept explanation, or personal learning support
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Research
- The writing guidance is framed around source use and citation generally rather than AI tools
- The university requires students to avoid plagiarism and to document sources in research writing, but the provided materials do not define any AI-specific rules for drafting, editing, or preparing research manuscripts
Plagiarism is the failure to give credit for someone else’s exact words, ideas or organization. It includes using a source’s language without quoting, using information from a source without citing it, and using the ideas or structure of a source without citing it.
Whenever you use information from a source, use a citation to document the source. If you use an author’s exact words, use quotation marks and a citation.
- They address research review, demographic data, consent, and risks generally, but not AI-specific research data practices
- The provided IRB and research materials do not define a policy on using AI for research data collection, analysis, statistical processing, or synthetic data generation
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- The documents cover IRB application requirements and consent/risk guidance, but do not mention AI
- The university's provided research ethics materials do not define AI-specific requirements for grant proposals, IRB applications, ethics declarations, or research-integrity standards
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Academic Integrity
- The citation guidance is drawn from general academic writing guidance rather than an AI transparency policy
- Pacific Union College requires students to attribute and cite all sources — crediting exact words with quotation marks and documenting any use of others' ideas or information — but does not define any AI-specific disclosure or attribution requirements in the available materials
Plagiarism is the failure to give credit for someone else's exact words, ideas or organization. It includes using a source's language without quoting, using information from a source without citing it, and using the ideas or structure of a source without citing it.
Whenever you use information from a source, use a citation to document the source. If you use an author's exact words, use quotation marks and a citation.
- Enforcement language is general to academic dishonesty rather than specific to AI
- The university states that plagiarism can lead to serious academic consequences, including suspension or dismissal, but it does not define any AI-detection tools or AI-specific enforcement procedures in the provided source text
All forms of academic dishonesty are considered a serious offense and may result in suspension or dismissal from the College.
Students who violate the academic integrity policy may be given a failing grade in the course and may also be subject to additional disciplinary action.
Institutional & Administrative
- The Faculty Handbook available on the PUC website was not reviewed in the extraction; therefore it cannot be confirmed that no faculty or staff AI use policy exists
- Based on the sources that were reviewed, no AI-specific guidance for faculty or staff is defined, but the Faculty Handbook should be consulted to confirm this finding
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- The provided materials do not define any university policy on approved AI platforms, restrictions on entering institutional data into AI systems, or AI-specific data classification requirements
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Common Questions About Pacific Union College's AI Policies
Pacific Union College has defined AI policies in 9 of 12 categories, with an overall coverage score of 75%.
Pacific Union College requires students to attribute and cite all sources — crediting exact words with quotation marks and documenting any use of others' ideas or information — but does not define any AI-specific disclosure or attribution requirements in the available materials. The citation guidance is drawn from general academic writing guidance rather than an AI transparency policy.
The university states that plagiarism can lead to serious academic consequences, including suspension or dismissal, but it does not define any AI-detection tools or AI-specific enforcement procedures in the provided source text. Enforcement language is general to academic dishonesty rather than specific to AI.
The provided materials do not define any university policy on approved AI platforms, restrictions on entering institutional data into AI systems, or AI-specific data classification requirements.